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Buried:
Kirk Memorial Gardens

Thomas married Living Benefield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Troy married Lena Leola Stiefel on 19 Jan 1913 in Jackson, Alabama, USA. Lena (daughter of General Gartrell Stiefel and Alice Hamilton) was born on 24 Jun 1896 in Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 14 Dec 1974 in Section, Jackson, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Addie Bell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the book "A Window on Yesterday" by Edward H. Carter, pg. 137. General Gartrell (Gart) Stiefel was described by his children as being a friendly, soft-spoken man about 5'8" tall with an average weight of 150 pounds. He had brown hair and blue eyes, with a slight hump on his nose. He wore a mustache continually from age 21 to 56. Gart was a farmer all his life, rainsing mainly cotton and corn. Gart's horse was named "Old Maude. He was a stonemason and a beekeeper. At one time he had over 50 hives of bees. He was also talented as a sorghum molasses maker which he did from age 23 to 57. He was a hunter and fond of wildlife. In his early life he was a Baptist and attended Old Antioch Church, now called Zion Hill. Around 1911 Gart switched his religious affiliation to Free Holiness. Around 1913 he deeded one acre of the family farm in Jackson County south of Macedonia Community for the site of a church. The church is known as Rock House Church. The first family home at the Rock House Place was L shaped with 3 rooms, built in 1916. A second house with 4 rooms was built on the same land in 1929. Gart Stiefel and his family became Republican's during the presidency of Democrat Grover Cleveland, when the price of cotton fell to 3 cents per pound. Gart Stiefel married Alice Hamilton on August 1st, 1895, at her parent's home. Alice had brown hair and a fair compelxion. She was part Indian through the Reynolds family. She was described as being an ambitious, hard-working person. She was a good cook and enjoyed gardening. She was a firm disciplinarian. Each year the family held a gathering at their home and Alice would cook for as many as 60 people.

Buried:
Macedonia Cemetery

General married Alice Hamilton on 1 Aug 1895 in Jackson, Alabama, USA. Alice (daughter of Elijah M. Hamilton and Sarah Elizabeth Reynolds) was born on 5 Mar 1879 in Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 26 Sep 1962 in Section, Jackson, Alabama, USA; was buried in Sep 1962 in Jackson, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Macedonia Cemetery